Healthy Divas

Healthy Divas is a peer-led healthcare empowerment and gender affirmation intervention designed to engage transgender women with HIV in care and treatment. Healthy Divas was developed following extensive formative research with patients and providers. With funding from the National Institute for Mental Health, the efficacy of the Healthy Divas intervention was tested with 276 trans women in San Francisco (UCSF) and Los Angeles (Friends Research Institute), between July 2015 - June 2020.  

We are currently conducting an implementation study of Healthy Divas in West Oakland, CA, in collaboration with the California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP).

Healthy Divas Success Story - UCSF Prevention Research Center (.pdf download).

San Francisco Healthy Divas Team 

• Jae Sevelius, PhD
  Affiliated Faculty
  Principal Investigator
• Sophia Zamudio-Haas, PhD
  Project Director
  Sophia.Zamudio-Haas@ucsf.edu 
• Akira Jackson, Carla Clynes, Research Assistants
• Breonna McCree, Peer Counselor
• Azize Ngo, Research Assistant and Study Phlebotomist
• Samantha Dilworth, Data Manager
• Tor Neilands, PhD, Statistician
• Mallory O. Johnson, PhD, Co-Investigator

Los Angeles Healthy Divas Team

• Cathy J. Reback, PhD
  Site Principal Investigator